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We Already Have an Abortion Pride Movement

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

April 13, 2009 - 7:00am

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When we discuss abortion as an honorable and loving choice that helps women to become better mothers in the future, we are showing respect, understanding, and support for the complexity of women's choices.

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"Jailhouse Journal" of an Abortion Provider

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

January 17, 2009 - 8:00am

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What motivates an abortion provider? What brings an individual to this important - and regretfully still controversial - practice of medicine? The answers are as varied as the brave doctors who do the work of helping women.

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An Overdue Conversation About Our Obligations to Special Needs Children

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

October 26, 2008 - 3:00am

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Parents of special needs children don't seek to force anyone to parent a disabled child. But they do want to destigmatize Down syndrome and see their children loved and welcomed.

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Global Lessons from China's Tainted Milk

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

October 8, 2008 - 7:00am

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Tragic news of children sickened by poisoned milk in China raises questions not only about its product safety system but about why infants in China are fed formula at all.

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What Does "Feminists for Life" Tell Us About Palin?

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

September 2, 2008 - 7:00am

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Sarah Palin is a proud member of Feminists for Life, so what does that mean to the feminists who've been fighting for women's rights since before being feminist was cool?

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Behind the Spectacle: Women's Human Rights in China

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

August 19, 2008 - 7:00am

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Behind the Olympic spectacle, what is the reality in China for women, their health, reproductive rights, and human rights?

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Safe Abortion Hotline Lauched in Anti-Choice Ecuador

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

July 17, 2008 - 7:00am

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Women on Waves is now providing safe abortions off the coast of Ecuador, focusing attention on the reproductive justice activists fighting against a society that has strictly criminalized abortion.

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What Is a Woman Worth? The Feminization of AIDS

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

June 2, 2008 - 7:00am

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HIV infections among women and girls have risen in every part of the world in recent years. The numbers point to a startling reality - the HIV/AIDS pandemic is inextricably linked to the brutal effects of sexism and gender inequality, most pronounced in Africa.

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Feminist Majority Foundation Honors Women's Rights Leaders

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

May 28, 2008 - 7:00am

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The Feminist Majority Foundation's Global Women's Rights Awardees are an awe-inspiring group of women's rights pioneers.

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The Best Gifts for Mother's Day Are Rights and Respect

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

May 9, 2008 - 7:00am

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We need a world that supports and respects safe and voluntary motherhood, not just with cards, fancy dinners, and sentiment on one Sunday a year, but by respecting our rights every single day.

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